https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/alex_rosenberg/ Recent content in Alex_rosenberg on George's Blog Hugo en-US Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/how-history-gets-things-wrong-the-neuroscience-of-our-addiction-to-stories/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/how-history-gets-things-wrong-the-neuroscience-of-our-addiction-to-stories/ <p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Rosenberg sets out to &lsquo;prove&rsquo; through Neuroscience that the way we understand our past, present, and future might not be based on a misunderstanding. In what is sure to ruffle the feathers of academics of every stripe, Rosenberg uses various studies as a lever to overturn several common theories of mind. For the uninitiated, a theory of mind is an explanatory framework whose purpose is to explain the mind to itself. Most common theories of mind rely on the iconic duo of desire and action. Charles is crying because he can&rsquo;t get an ice cream cone. In the previous sentence, we are met with Charles&rsquo; desire and the action that results from the desire, a cause and an effect. Rosenberg then uses this as a jumping-off point to argue that this core assumption that almost all theories of mind make is flawed.</p>